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> It is frankly nothing short of amazing that Apple ships things like homomorphic encryption, and differential privacy, and client-side vectorization, and encrypted vectors, at the scale that they inhabit... and they still get a bad report card back from consumers about privacy.

Personally, I don't shy away from criticizing Google, but that's not the point. Apple makes big claims about their privacy practices that neither Google nor Microsoft make, it would be bizarre to hold Google or Microsoft to claims and standards that Apple set for themselves.

> Comparing Apple and Google, or Apple and Microsoft, it seems to me that Apple's track record on these issues is actually not as bad as public opinion might suggest. Meta doesn't even make the list for comparison, and neither does Amazon.

> It makes me wonder if picking privacy as a strategy is workable in the first place. People trust TLS; people use banking apps on their phone now without thinking. I remember in 2008 or so when people still didn't quite trust SSL.

> I'm not sure if Apple will be able to bridge the gap here, though, if _all_ of their competition simply chooses not to ship those features. Do customers know the difference? Do they... care? In theory they want their data to be private, yes. But if they are not willing to educate themselves to perform their counterparty obligation in fulfilling "informed consent," there may be no action Apple could take to avoid catching the same bad rap everyone else does.

I've said this elsewhere, but what I really dislike about Apple's strategy regarding privacy is that they treat privacy as a purely technological problem that could be solved if only we had better technology, but they ignore that a huge component of why users have been subjected to so many flagrant privacy violations is because they have zero visibility and zero real control over their computing experiences. Apple would very much like to retain their iron grip on what users are allowed to do on their platforms, as they make a ton of money off of their control of the platforms in various ways, so they have a huge incentive to make sure we're all arguing about whether or not Apple is better or worse than Google or Microsoft. Because sure, I do believe that if we held Google to the same privacy standards that Apple currently has, it would probably kill Google. However, if Apple and Google were both forced to give more transparency and control to the users somehow, they'd both be in a lot of trouble.

Despite all of this effort, I think that user trust in the privacy of cloud computing and pushing data out to the internet will only ever go down, because attacks against user privacy and security will only ever continue to get more and more sophisticated as long as there are resourceful people who have a reason to perform said attacks. And there certainly always will be those resourceful people, including in many cases our own governments, unfortunately.
Lua can be viewed as a pretty solid lisp dialect. You've got the compiler available at runtime, first class functions and coroutines, sensible language runtime. Type system is pretty much the same. It doesn't do the phase separated macros out of the box, but metalua does. Performance is rubbish and the syntax is a parse away from the s-expression ast but whatever, the semantics are right.
In my view, coupon aggregation is a scam per se. You are either scamming the business (by extending a discount aimed at a particular group to anyone) or scamming other buyers (by contributing to a market segmentation between "savvy" and "dumb" consumers). I refuse to use a coupon applier out of principle, even if it were perfectly frictionless and trustworthy.
I remember airports having birds of prey that they would keep around and deploy for this purpose. Drones are probably much cheaper.
I’ve got a 6th gen iPad Mini, it charges to 100% using an Anker charger and no-name USB A-C cable
This is a non-excuse. All the accounting is done through distribution partners, not to individual artists, and they have computers available to calculate numbers. They have been doing it until now just fine while making money. So have literally all the other streaming platforms.

Is a million times a thousand plays still nothing?
With FlexSearch
or lunr or similar, building an index is so fast for “thousands of items” that it’s fine to do it when the user opens a search interface and forget it once they’re done.
> the clients inventory system ran on an AS/400 and I knew literally nothing about IBM mainframes

I'm going to be "that guy": The AS/400 (nowadays System i) is not a mainframe but the last standing member of the family of midrange (outside of IBM called minicomputer) systems. (NonStop and OpenVMS - and probably something else I don't know about - are still somewhat around, but nowadays they run on more or less microcomputer systems).
Sure, but here we have a concrete example of a regulatory committee making a rule that apparently doesn't do what you fear. So it seems like it's certainly possible for regulatory committees not to do what you described?

I get your point, but painting with such broad strokes honestly just poisons the discussion. If you're rejecting everything on principle by applying a slippery slope, why should people care about your position?

Lastly, I'm not sure I understand what "seeing anti Europeans everywhere" you're talking about, could you expand on that?
One must fall was AMAZING! It had so much character and satisfying feedback in it!

(Or this is how I remember it)
iPhone and submarines have different limitations. Submarines have a depth limit because they are (mostly) empty shells at very high pressure and the hull implodes, which is not the case of iPhones. For iPhones, being submerged for extended periods of time water will slowly get in at very low rates, but given enough time it will accumulate to significant quantities to do damage.
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you could compare it to say, Football, either football, and see that its almost the exact same game.

is there a game thats closer to fisher random than chess? checkers? pokemon the card game?

fisher random has the same pieces that move the same way, and at least half the pieces have same starting position as chess (the pawns)

if you compare to say, duck chess, only the opening of fisher random is different, and i imagine sometimes its the same? in duck chess, the openings, midgames, endgames and tactics are all different, whereas in fisher random, the midgames, endgames, and tactics are the same as in chess. fisher random is a superset of chess, and not by much.

engine chess is still considered chess, and similar to fisher random, the pieces and pawns start in different places than they do in chess
I think Aaron is referring more to the unreal expectations placed on people who experience shocking events. You'll hear things like "how can you still do this?" Or being treated like not a person, but a vessel to receive the sympathy of others. The expectations of you being "fucked up" or "scarred" is imposed on you from others and is obnoxious, if I'm being honest.

I'd go easy on him, it sounds like he may have experienced that feeling recently.
From afar it seems easier than ever to learn mainframe. IBM has free courses on z/OS these days (besides the registration) and there are lots of PDF:s hidden away in blog posts and whatnot on their site. Coursera has some courses too.
i think its more similar than oils va acrylics. more like painint with acrylics either on a bleached canvas or an unbleached canvas
It’s wild doing the following on a shared production machine. I’ve seen 30+ sessions unattended for days:

ps aux | grep vi

People not knowing how to quit vim is a meme but at the same time is real as ever.
This is great, but not guaranteed. I consider it a best effort to do the right thing.
That was an interesting talk!

I'm not very familiar with security stuff, but I didn't really get the responsible disclosure thing – is it really unreasonable for this company to ask them not to go public just three months after their initial disclosure?

I understand the 'it was known since 2013' thing, but they did also say the company was actively making improvements after the initial disclosure so they were not exactly just shoving it under the rug were they?
SPF has challenges with shared infrastructure - if you are sending from a large service and using SPF then anyone else on that service and spoof you unless the service has outbound controls to restrict which addresses you can send from.

Fastmail had to implement this a few years ago ourselves, after 20 years of allowing whatever, we had to start by auto-whitelisting all the addresses people were sending from for a while, then slowly start introducing a requirement to prove control of the sending address to add new sending addresses over time! Obviously hosting your domain with us gets you auto-approved for any address on that domain, but otherwise you either need to confirm that you can receive email at an address to send from it now.

But SPF by itself is pretty flawed. I'm keen to write more about DKIM2 when it gets chartered at IETF (hopefully) and we can post more public documents, but it should supersede SPF/DKIM for most uses.
How extreme car dependency is driving Americans to unhappiness
AI system to search complex patent database to uncover strategic insights
It works great for me with no random errors so far, with these dependency hashes: https://github.com/justjake/Dotfiles/blob/new/config/nvim/la...
Why should the individual end user be concerned about CO2 emissions? Or are we letting corporations in China outsource that guilt back to us?
its imperfect. people will still memorize the lot, and memorizing chess openings and tactical patterns will still apply frequently
I dunno if there's thousands. Maybe if you include ISPs! There's certainly quite a few though.

(and thanks for the Fastmail plug)
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I don’t see why you would ever have to switch to a certain IDE, but I can see from some of the other comments a lot of people seem to be unfortunate enough not to have the choice. One of the reasons I like emacs (again in in doom so it could be Neovim) is that it’s basically an IDE I can use forever and easily get working on any computer by pulling my dot files from my git repo. I say easily but it’s obviously not easy on windows considering you sort of need WSL, C server and to install some LSP support.

I understand why people like VSC, but at the same time I’ve seen people go from other IDEs to VSC and now many are going yo Zed. Mean while I can just trundle along in the same IDE. Some of the emacs purists haven’t had to learn a new IDE for decades and likely never will.

To each their own of course.
barely related but useful to me (save/reload): https://github.com/caoyue/WindowResizer
Sabotaging any infrastracture harms people. Transitioning to clean energy can be (and is being) sped up by actual peaceful actions.

The second talk is especially ridiculous when the speaker suggests to sabotage datacenters, because they use a lot of resources. I guess it is part of the "degrowth" ideology, which I find deeply flawed.
I would argue that bitcoin has already failed. As a currency, it is pretty much useless. If I had bitcoin today, it would be really hard for me to convert it into products or services I want without relying on a regulated financial institution and converting it to a currency issued by a central bank.

I know some people who own bitcoin, but I have never met anyone who has used bitcoin, except perhaps once as a party trick.
Imagine chess tournaments just being about playing chess rather than pompous formalities that have zilch to do with chess.
One specific use Apple is making of homomorphic encryption as of iOS 18 (I think) is for spam callers. You get a phone call, your phone sends Apple the encrypted phone number, they run it against their spam caller database, and you get the encrypted spam/not spam response back. They published a bunch of open source code around this functionality a while back.

https://www.swift.org/blog/announcing-swift-homomorphic-encr...
I am a person of no faith whatsoever. I celebrate Christmas. There's really not that much thought put into it.
If the tweet is factual, I wouldn't be surprised if a large Saudi or Western investor in OpenAI with zero conscience got him whacked. I don't however think that OpenAI itself had anything to do with it.

An alternate theory is that the government itself is culpable in both alleged hits (Boeing and OpenAI) , due to damage to military and/or intelligence operations if the companies were to do poorly. It's funny though, considering how poorly Boeing has performed in space.

Going forward, the question that remains unanswered for me is whether to fear investors or infiltrators. Either way, those who don't get the message will keep finding out the hard way with a suicide note discovered next to them.

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It is also funny that law enforcement doesn't investigate whose gun it officially was. Let me guess - the numbers were scraped off.

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I don't think it was smart for a random individual to fight for copyrights. They don't really help the individual, only the publisher.
But that's just another bullshit excuse to stay proprietary.

SuperVOOC doesn't really do anything special that isn't also achievable using the PD PPS (programmable power supply) specification.
>With all 4 crew members on the lunar surface who will be working on gateway?

One of the technology advancements being pushed by Gateway is that (unlike ISS) it wouldn't require a constant human presence.
Someone not familiar with the front windshield of cars might think they go straight through. Don't think airplanes have any less strong windshields than cars.

A deep-frozen bird hitting the windshield straight on might be a problem but a live bird hitting at less than 45 degrees is not a problem for the plane or the pilots. The bird becomes red mist.
OK thanks. That's cool. Presumably our local radio stations also have them, even if I can't find them with a quick duckduckgoogle.
I'm a big fan of this solution! It's always been annoying to perform all the ceremony involved in deploying a system with a bunch of files, with config, scripts and system written in a bunch of different languages.

In my current project I just wrote the installer and config generation as part of the main method. Gets rid of a lot of complexity, with a simpler build, and is arguably easier to maintain. Single language, single binary.
Precisely. The irony is that almost all non-MacBook computer still come with at least one USB-A port to this day. If it weren't for Apple pushing USB-C only on the MacBook, that connector's universal adoption as the primary data/video interface wouldn't have been as widespread. They legitimized the connector by forcing it on MacBook users.
That's not accurate. I think my post articulates clearly my thoughts. Happy holidays.
But this chaos fits Big Tech's claim that there are not enough American workers, so they can then turn around and onshore H1Bs from the hiring manager's hometown back in the old country.
> sabotaging fossil fuel infrastrusture protects it.

Oh, is it that simple, really? Or does it come with a lot of unintended consequences, fueling conflict and paving the way for a more suppressive government?
After happily replacing the battery in a ten year old phone, six months later it was obsolete due to the 3G network switch off; the device was no longer capable of one of it's primary functions; making and receiving phone calls.
Name one business started this century that uses mainframes. If there were any compelling reasons to use them in the modern times, there would certainly be some companies using it. Mainframes are legacy cruft used by businesses that had them decades ago and are too cheap or entrenched to modernize their systems.
I find that terminal apps are a lot more respectful of my machine's resources and whatever workflow I want to build. I can make them work like I want to. GUI apps make me work the way they want to, which as an incorrigible non-conformist is a real fly in the ointment.
They seemed perfectly lined up with the runway and descended at the right pace though. That’d be real tough for a non-pilot to achieve.
Depends on the Application. In Bitcoin farming it famously was not an issue at all, manufacturers came up with the weirdest motherboards featuring many x1 pcie slots. Look up the Biostar TB360-BTC PRO 2.0 if you want to see a curiosity.

In Deep Learning it depends on your sharding strategy.
"Make colleagues to review a PR".
Siri mixes up baby kangaroo with Friends sitcom actor
Most phones sold have very low and sometimes negative margins, actually. The high-end phones arena which Apple dominates is actually a minority of total phones sold.
I'm not suggesting the ineptness is present at the top or in key organs of the system, particularly parts responsible for enforcement and espionage.

It naturally forms in the wider system through layers of control with people at each point doing the minimum required (well, the minimum they think that they can get away with) and creaming off any remaining resources.

The obviousness of reactions from the near top when enacted, against those that are too close to failures or deliberately act against the system, while often difficult to directly link to the top, yes, is very deliberate, and generally not ineptly executed.

In fact the individuals further down are often not really inept: they are can very good at doing what must be done with what little resource filters down while benefiting from what they can cream off, passing actual responsibility downwards, and keeping apparent responsibility for themselves (and their circles) when things go well. The comical ineptness is an emergent behaviour of the overall system that results from these behaviours.

This is in stark contrast to some other regimes, for instance the UK under BoJo the Clown and his next couple of replacements where the ineptitude was at times frighteningly and obviously present at and near the top, or over the longer term things like the post office scandal & cover-up which has dragged on for so long through an apparent endemic immorality rather than localised manipulation at each level.
Agree with you on helix. I love it.

Atuin for improved history search.

Starship for an improved shell prompt.

zoxide - better cd

ripgrep - better grep

just - a command runner. I put project specific commands/scripts in there so I don’t have to remember.

All of these are indispensable for me.
Here in the U.K., where so many of these stupid rules and customs originate, dress codes have always been a way to exclude the ‘wrong sort’. Which, is usually working class and poor people.
Parking minima are a distinctly American phenomenon.
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At least for e-bike battery, that's precisely what we're building at https://get.gouach.com :)
This discussion got quite long without anyone mentioning the novel technical implementation paper "Scalable Private Search with Wally". Kudos to Apple for researching this, but shame on them for enabling this by default.

As a somewhat homomorphic encryption scheme, each query releases some bits of information on what you searching for to avoid using the whole database. Subsequent queries from a given user will generally be correlated enough to build a tracer. Governments or other powerful enough actors can pierce the proxy veil, heck the tracer will be able to deanonymize you with enough queries recorded.

How many queries? For me it is too tedious to work out the math from the differential privacy definitions and I already know the landmarks around me: I don't want such a feature.
I don’t think water is preferable to a runway, gear or not. Both will be very hard surfaces indeed at the right speed, and water has additional hazards that more than make up for the fact it has more space.
I got hold of the FIG UK 808O listing, and ported to Z80 to run on my Camputers Lynx.
No I don't think mechanical keyboards in general are better. I think heavy switches (which is very common) are worse than regular keyboards.

Light switches (Choc has some nice very light switches) is probably better, and of course you'd want to look at split keyboards, column-stagger instead of row-stagger, and tenting.
there is atill hidden information in chess, and thus luck when you take a guess at what it is.

you provide an example, but the luck is in guessing what the opponent would check or not check.

a clearer example is trying to play out of your opponent's prep. you dont know what lines theyve prepared, and youre taking a gamble with each move on whether theyve prepped it or not. they cant prep every possible line in the available time, regardless of how long (ding wasnt prepared for most of gukesh's attacks, with months to prepare)

theres also luck in that your opponent may not have slept well the night before because a car alarm went off at 2AM, so their comparative grey matter evaluation in time was lower than usual, or they just played a tiring long game where they lost, right before this game.
Got me interested, if you had time only for one, which one of two would you recommend?
For background media, I found recordings of speedruns [0] with player commentary to strike the right balance, not being too distracting, yet giving a pleasant atmosphere (when, for example programming).

[0] for example as found on YouTube.
Where are you? I'm in Poland and I just disabled it both on phone and tablet - the setting switcher is "conveniently" placed at the bottom of Photos settings page
A lot of people see driving a car as a right, instead of a privilege it is (or should be). It goes hand in hand with little required training and lenient punishments.
I'm often using Fuse in my JS apps. So many in-app searchs cannot handle typing errors, it's frustrating.
They have translation both from deutsch to English and English to Deutsch, therefore filtering would make no difference.
EChess: Play Online Chess, but over the Board
There you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction
en passant is still considered a new rule, and it was there in the 16th century
I travel by train regularly in the UK and it isn't unusual to take up to 8 hours to get anywhere :)

The closest I've been to a sleeper in recent decades has been five hours on a cold station because cancellations & delays have meant missing the last onward connection of the day so waiting for the first morning service (there are supposed to be provisions for that by way of providing accommodation or replacement taxi service, which do sometimes work, but at that time of night there isn't always someone available & reachable to enact such policies).
Good enough? Maybe better today, but they have been god awful compared to AMD and absolute garbage compared to something like M1 iGPU. They are responsible for more than half of the pain inflicted on users in Vista days.

Ironically, they have lost the driver advantage in Linux with their latest Arc stuff.

I trust they could have done a lot better, a lot earlier, if they cared to invest in iGPU. Feels like deliberately neglected.